Blu-ray Review: DodgeBall – A True Underdog Story
Who didn’t love playing dodgeball while they were growing up? The opportunity to hit other kids with a ball and call it athletics; I used to love those days in gym class when I could load up and fire a ball at some kid I didn’t like or was having a beef with. It was […]
Blu-ray Review: The X – Files, Fight the Future
I am one of those people who didn’t become a fan of the X – Files until a couple of years ago, when I started watching the series on DVD. In all honesty, I still haven’t watched all nine seasons yet. That being said, I guess I was a good person to test the theory […]
Blu-ray Review: Into the Wild
For centuries, literary figures including Leo Tolstoy, Henry David Thoreau, Mark, Twain Jack London and countless others have written about the importance of nature and the importance of living off the land. In turn, many people have taken these written works to heart and set off on their own journeys in search of a new […]
DVD Review: Wu – The Story of the Wu-Tang Clan
From Staten Island, New York, Wu-Tang Clan is one of the most critically and commercially successful hip hop groups of all time. Their success and influence is only partially due to their rap music. While Wu-Tang Clan consisted of nine members– RZA, GZA, Raekwon, U-God, Ghostface Killah, Inspectah Deck, Method Man, Masta Killa, and the […]
Blu-ray Review: Tropic Thunder
I’m old enough to remember when the idea of making a satirical movie about the Vietnam War would have been considered to be the height of bad taste. Times have definitely changed. The Vietnam War seems to be in the rearview mirror of many filmmakers, while others aren’t old enough to have any first hand […]
DVD Review: The Polar Express (Presented in 3-D)
Based on a short (32 pages), illustrated children’s book by Chris Van Allsburg, directed by Robert Zemeckis, the guy behind such creative hits as Back to the Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Forrest Gump, and Contact, all of them filled with fascinating characters and jnique sights for the eye, had a bit of a misfire […]
DVD Review: Kung Fu Panda / Secrets of the Furious Five
Hollywood has enjoyed a long and storied lineage of animals in lead roles. Old Yeller, Lassie, Babe, and even Remmy the Rat from last year’s Ratatouille effortlessly capture the hearts of audiences everywhere with their often human-like personas, showing a range of emotion and stirring the soul through the good times and the bad. DreamWorks’ […]
Blu-ray Review: Kung Fu Panda
Hollywood has enjoyed a long and storied lineage of animals in lead roles. Old Yeller, Lassie, Babe, and even Remmy the Rat from last year’s Ratatouille effortlessly capture the hearts of audiences everywhere with their often human-like persona’s, showing a range of emotion and stirring the soul through the good times and the bad. DreamWorks’ […]
Blu-ray Review: Black Christmas – Special Edition
Writer/director Bob Clark is probably best known to movie audiences as the writer/director of Porky’s (1982) and as the director of A Christmas Story (1983), for which he also wrote the screenplay with Jean Shepherd. Despite these forays into teenage sex comedy’s and sweet Christmas classics, Clark actually got his start in the movie business […]
DVD Review: High Noon – 2-Disc Ultimate Collector’s Edition
A bonafide movie star for over thirty years of his working life, Gary Cooper is considered by most film historians to one of the more iconic movie stars. Fans loved him because they felt they could relate to him. As fellow film legend Clint Eastwood said of Cooper in the 1991 documentary, Gary Cooper: American […]